Here is our salute – in photo, audio, video, and writing – to a Roxbury legend and the vast Gang Starr legacy he left behind. A collection of videos, photos, music and more from our archives By CHRIS FARAONE | May 21, 2010

When the Roxbury-born rapper Guru passed away April 19 in a hospital bed — succumbing to cancer at the age of 48 — the internationally renowned musician had not seen most of his lifelong friends and relatives in seven years. How a mysterious Svengali dominated the final days of the Boston-born hip-hop and jazz superstar By CHRIS FARAONE | January 01, 1900